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is the stand-by. We can have apples the year round with a 

 very little trouble. Who says that an orange is better than 

 an apple? The peel of an orange is not fit to eat, and the 

 pulp no one ought to eat, and all you have left is a little 

 juice, — good, I know, but what a price to pay for a few 

 teaspoonfuls of orange juice ! The next time any of you 

 think that an orange is better than an apple, stop right where 

 you are and eat one, and then eat a good ripe apple, and see 

 whether you have not been mistaken. No one ought to put 

 away for winter use less than five or six bushels of apples for 

 every one in the family, and if you have good -sized boys 

 make the bushels eight for each one. In fact, we should eat 

 more money's worth in fruit than in meat for health. We 

 have found that uncooked apples had better be eaten just 

 before meals, but that is not the way we eat the most of 

 our apples. There are so many ways that apples can be used 

 that I will mention only a few. Apple tapioca pudding makes 

 a dish that if more was eaten, and less pie, it would be better 

 for the human family. 



Brown Betty, a good way to use up old bread, with some 

 cream and sugar, makes a dessert good enough for any one. 

 Baked apples are fine, especially sweet apples, but there are 

 so many wormy apples that I am rather spleeny against them, 

 and had rather they would be pared and sliced to remove all 

 the bad places than to eat them, not knowing what I was 

 eating. The twentieth century, however, is going to do 

 away with all bad fruit, I suppose. 



Apple custard baked as a squash pie (if you want, once 

 in a while, to eat pie crust) some think is very fine. Of 

 course, a good nice fat-sliced apple pie, with thin pie crust, 

 tastes good, even if the laws of health are broken. 



A good many think that an apple dumpling is one of the 

 rare treats. The last place 1 saw one was in a wash-bowl, 

 where it had landed after leaving the stomach of a patient, 

 who felt better, a good deal, than he did before he threw it 

 up. I rather think the wash-bowl is a better place for an 

 apple dumpling than my stomach. 



We use nearly every day, and almost every meal in the 

 day, just stewed apples (during their best season). What 



